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Genus Woronichinia
Name: Woronichinia Elenkin 1933
Etymology: Wo.ro.ni.chi’ni.a. N.L. fem. n. Woronichinia, named to honor N.N. Woronchin, Russian algologist
Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Woronichini-), wo-ro-ni-KHI-ni-a
Type species: Woronichinia naegeliana (Unger 1854) Elenkin 1933
Valid publication: Elenkin AA. O sistematicheskom podrazdenii poryadka Chroococcales Geitler (1925). Trudy Botanicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, Series 2, Sporovye Rasteniya 1933; 1:17-21.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Notes:
- 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Woronichiniaceae Elenkin 1933. Publication: Elenkin AA. O sistematicheskom podrazdenii poryadka Chroococcales Geitler (1925). Trudy Bot. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Ser. 2, Sporov. Rast. 1933; 1:17-21.
- 🧕 Elenkin (1933) assigned this genus to the family Woronichiniaceae Elenkin 1933. Publication: Elenkin AA. O sistematicheskom podrazdenii poryadka Chroococcales Geitler (1925). Trudy Botanicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, Series 2, Sporovye Rasteniya 1933; 1:17-21.
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🧕 Hoffmann et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Gomphosphaeriaceae Elenkin 1933.
Publication:
Hoffmann L, Komárek J, Kaštovský J. System of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacteria) – state in 2004. Algol. Stud. 2005; 117:95-115.
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- 🧕 Komarek et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Coelosphaeriaceae Elenkin 1933. Publication: Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335. 🇨🇿
- 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Coelosphaerium Nägeli 1849. Publication: Unger F. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der niedersten Algenformen nebst Versuchen ihre Entstehung betreffend. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 1854; 7:185-196.
- 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Gomphosphaeria Kützing 1836. Publication: Lemmermann E. Algen I (Schizophyceen, Flagellaten, Peridineen). In: Anonymous NN (eds), Kryptogamenflora der Mark Brandenburg und angrenzender Gebiete herausgegeben von dem Botanischen Verein der Provinz Brandenburg. Dritter Band, Verlag von Gebrüder Borntraeger, Leipzig, 1907, p. 1-304.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Wormzizhinia"; "Woronochinia"; "Wororzichirzia"; "Wortmichinia".
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 14
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 14
Total number of child taxa: 18
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Woronichinia botrys (Skuja 1964) Komárek and Hindák 1988 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Woronichinia compacta (Lemmermann 1899) Komárek and Hindák 1988 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Woronichinia delicatula (Skuja 1964) Komárek and Hindák 1988 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Woronichinia elorantae Komárek and Komárková-Legnerová 1992 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Woronichinia fremyi (Komárek 1984) Komárek and Hindák 1988 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Woronichinia fusca (Skuja 1948) Komárek and Hindák 1988 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Woronichinia hungarica Hortobágyi 1939 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Woronichinia karelica Komárek and Komárková-Legnerová 1992 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Woronichinia klingae Komárek and Komárková-Legnerová 1992 inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code]) misspelling Woronichinia klingiae corrig. Komárek and Komárková-Legnerová 1992 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Woronichinia kuselae Watanabe and Komárek 1994 inaccurate spelling (ICN [Botanical Code]) misspelling Woronichinia kuseliae corrig. Watanabe and Komárek 1994 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Woronichinia naegeliana (Unger 1854) Elenkin 1933 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name "Woronichinia obtusa" Joosten 2006 not validly published preferred name "Woronichinia radians" (Hortobágyi 1957) Komárek and Hindák 1988 not validly published preferred name Woronichinia robusta (Skuja 1964) Komárek and Hindák 1988 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Woronichinia ruzickae Komárek and Hindák 1988 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name Woronichinia tenera (Skuja 1964) Komárek and Hindák 1988 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name
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Parent taxon: Microcystaceae Elenkin 1933
Assigned by:
Strunecky O, Ivanova AP, Mares J. An updated classification of cyanobacterial orders and families based on phylogenomic and polyphasic analysis. J Phycol 2023; 59:12-51. 
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Record number: 6208
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